20 more reasonable, which more sincere, we felt that it was of the UtI110St Ï111por- tance to deter111ine which side possessed the greater talent as a guesser. So we Just looked at photos of Bradley and MacArthur to see which has the poker face. Bradley, no question about it. For Rent M OURNERS of the Ritz-Carlton, the Carlton section of which is nearly de111olished, with the Ritz sec- tion to be pulled down this sum111er, will be likely to taper off a little on their keening when they step inside the new Carlton House, at 680 Madison Ave- nue, hetween Sixty-first Street and Six- ty-second Street If the plasterers and painters finish their work on time, Carl- ton House will open its doors to tenants one day next week, and in the lobby and public r00111S there, behind a rather dreary apartI11en t-building façade of red brick and limestone, will be found 111uch that has been fa111iliar in the old Ritz- the sa111e opulent Adam-brothers style of decoration, with highlights of azure and gold; the same gilt candelabra and crystal chandeliers; and the sa111e ruddy and dark-blue carpeting, over which one cannot help i111agInIng an ar111Y of waiters and valets ever softly padding, padding. Even the iron balustrades of the stairways are cast in the sa111e delicate, handso111e pattern as those of the soon-to-be-broken-up Ritz. In many cases, the fixtures are plunder from the old building; in others, they are exact duplicates. In the new Men's Bar, for exa111ple, the chairs, tables, and pictures w ll be fro111 the old Men's Bar, and the walls are being painted a sÎ111ilar dove gray. The only deliberate struc- tural dIfference between old bar and new is the substitution, at the bar itself, of a olarble step for the former rail. More substantial. \Ve were taken on a lightning tour of the new Carlton House one l110rning last week by Frank L. Swadley, vice- president and general 111anager of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel C0111pany, Inc. As we darted under painters' scaffolds and past electricians bearing garlands of B-X cable, Swadley mentioned for our benefit that Carlton House is an apart- ment hotel for per111anent residents; that the hundred and sixty-five apartI11ents in the building were designed to range in size fro111 one and a half r00111S to four and a half r00111S but that several ten- ants, renting from floor plans, were able to arrange to have two, or even three, apartI11en ts combined in to a single big one; and that half of the apartments are ""'\ being decorated and furnished by the tenants, not by the manage111ent U n- like the public rooms-the restaurant, cocktail lounge, and so on-the apart- ments are designed for easy maintenance and are ah110st without architectural flourishes. The closest things to flour- ishes are a hundred-odd marble fire- places from the old RItz-Carlton that havè been installed in the new building, but these have no flue connections and are 111eant to be looked at or leaned agaInst. S'wadley led us, by means of an un- finished stairway and a quilt-lined eleva- tor, to a couple of sa111ple apartI11ents on the fifth floor, furnished by the 111anagement as a lure to prospective tenants. The living rooms of the apart- 111ents we exa111ined were about four- teen feet wide by twenty-two feet long, with dining bays of about six feet by eight feet, înd kitchenettes and bath- rooms of roughly the same size as the bays; the bedrooms were about eleven feet wide by sixteen feet long. One bed- r00111 we saw was only eight feet wide hy eleven feet six inches long. \Ve told Swadley that it shocked us to find the very rich confined to such pitifully con- stncted quarters, and he replied, draw- ing on a hotel 111anager's botto111less reservoir of discretIon, that the very rich are not what they used to be. We asked what the various apartI11ents rented for, and he replied, tapping the sa111e reser- voir, that for all such infor111ation we would have to get in touch with Doug- las L. Ellu11an & Co., the renting agents. On returnIng to the office, we put in a call to Douglas Elliman, and were con- nected with Miss Josephine Schaefer, the Elli111an vice-president in charge of renting Carlton House. We asked Miss Schaefer, diffidently, about the rents there, and she burst out at once, "Why, you wouldn't believe it! You never heard such rents! They start at thirty-six hundred a year, for the small- est one-and-a-half in the place. Then up ( . \) . "WI' """ '. .....-..., ... '" ;<I API\I L 2, 8, I 9 5 1 to fifty-two hundred, for a nice two- and-a-half. Then up to twelve thousand a year, for four and a half r00111S. Then up to- But I wouldn't dare tell you how 111 uch for the penthouses. Each of them is three apartI11ents turned into one. One penthouse has been rented by Mrs. Robert ""T. Goelet, whose h us- band owned the Ritz. He left it to Harvard in his will, and Harvard sold it to the Astor Estate. Oh, and Lord and Lady Astor have rented an apart- 111ent in Carlton House. And the Gary Coopers-they've taken two apartments and knocked them into one. And Leland Hayward has an apartment there. JA.nd Otis L. Guern ey, of Abercrombie & Fitch. And the Links Club has taken a couple of apartments, for the con- venience of out-of-town members. And :\1r. and Mrs. Rudkin, of Pepperidge F arm bread. And Ear I Slick, of Slick Airways. And A1110n G. Carter, of F ort Worth." \\1 e asked about serv- ants-didn't the very rIch have serv- ants any 111 ore ? "\V e have only ten servants' rooms in the building," Miss Schaefer said. "They rent for a thou- sand dollars a year, furnished. However, we provide full 111aid service anyway. rrhe whole building is about ninety per cent rented. 1\;lost of the tenants won't be there more than a l110nth or so a year. For those who are there, Carlton House plans to change the bed linen twice a week. That's worth something, isn't it? " We said we guessed it was. "Don't go worrying about the rich," Miss Schaefer said incisively. "They're richer than they ever were. They just don't live as well, that's all." Dressy T HE resplendent blue attire of a n umber of Venezuelan cadets here for the Simon Bolivar-statue-relocation cere1110nIes last week caused an argu- men t between a couple of taxi-drivers, halted by a red light on Madison A ve- nue. The first said that the costu111es were foreign. "Ya egghead," said the second, "that's the civilian uniform of the United States Navy! " Literary Stevedore E RIC HOFFER, the San Francisco longshore111an whose book about political fanaticism, "The True Be- liever," has been hailed by many re- viewers as a tnu111ph of maSS-111ovement analysis ("All his observations are in- candescent," said the Times. "The writing itself is a marvel") is a native of New ì ork. He was born in the Bronx "'